The Business Times, 3 August 1992

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  • 16 1 Business Times THE BUSINESS PAPER FOR S-E ASIA MITA (P) 35/12/91 Monday, August 3, 1992 75*
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  • NEWS SUMMARY
    • 66 1 TOKYO Major Japanese commercial banks, including Kyowa Saitama Bank, Daiwa Bank, and Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, have announced that they will cut their shortterm prime rate by half a percentage point to 4.75 per cent, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said yesterday. Kyowa
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    • 62 1 JOHANNESBURG A United Nations observer team flew into South Africa yesterday to monitor the African National Congresss campaign of mass action which the government believes will lead to violence. The UN monitors are expected to be stationed throughout the country to observe the
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  • MARKETS SUMMARY
    • Article, Illustration
      27 1 Friday Change BT-MGA 699.50 +1.20 Kuala I.umpur ....601.53 +2.97 Tokyo 15,910.28 +354.68 Hongkong 5,881.13 +51.30 Sydney 1,617.7 -3.3 New York 3,393.78 +1.89 London 1,803.8 -4.1
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    • 22 1 Exchange rates USS s$ 1.6120 100 Yen SS 1.2658 MS SS 0.6442 Money marfcat rates Overnight 2-5/8 +2/8 3-month 2-3/8 unch
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    • 32 1 Rubber S pore Aug !43.50«/kg -0.25 M'sia Aug 221 '/kg unch KL Tin Turnover 44 tonnes -6 Spot M$16.8Q/kg -0.09 Crude palm oil Turnover 1,121 lots -174 Oct MS826 /tonne -3
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  • 638 1  -  Companies see little incentive to get listed By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE Hongkong and Malaysian companies have raised five times as much money from the stock market through initial public offerings and rights issues than Singapore companies. Stockbrokers and analysts say the
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  • 378 1  -  "By! S N Vasuki, Salil Tripathi SINGAPORE Business associates of Singapore-based biscuit baron Rajan Pillai, and institutional investors in his holding company, Britannia Holdings Pte Ltd, have sued him in Singapore and London. Details of the suits could not be confirmed, but sources
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  • 270 1  -  By Harish Mehta SINGAPORE A hardcore communist, Truong Tan Sung, is tipped to become the next chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. The committee in effect runs Ho Chi Minh City, and is the authority
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  • 100 1 AFP JERUSALEM Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday named two IsraeliArabs as deputy government ministers for the first time in Israel's history, officials said. The appointments of Nawaf Massalha of the Labour Party as Deputy Health Minister and Walid Sadik of the left-wing Meretz group
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  • 412 1  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE The Singapore manager may not earn as much as his counterparts in rich countries but he has greater purchasing power than many of them have. This was among the findings of a survey by the UK-based
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    • 214 1 Two eye S'pore listing TWO more major foreign companies are seeking to list their shares on the Singapore stock exchange, in the wake of Hongkong-owned Clipsal Industries' share offer which was launched last week. Page 3 Banking on Gamut C K TANG expects a rescue operation in the group's trading
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    • 49 1 brother 743-8000 B&M Suanesi Syst««« Brokers frustrated by stagnant bourse, Pg 3 Hock Lock Siew: Is Beijaya Group trimming debt at expense of its crown jewels? Pg 4 Profit forecast for Singapore banks, Pg 4 Experience the comfort JAL's 747-400 daily service to Tokyo Japan Airlines WORIO OF COMFORT.
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  • PAGE 2 NEWS
    • 519 2 HK fund managers believe current euphoria is unlikely to last AFP HONGKONG Hongkong fund managers have urged caution in investing in China's booming Shenzhen and Shanghai stock markets, saying the current euphoria is unlikely to last. "The present interest is propelled more by supply
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    • 439 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming CLERKS and secretaries are most in demand in the nonexecutive job market. And it looks like they will be for the rest of this year. During the first six months of the year, the number of secretarial and clerical vacancies advertised
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 95 2 NINE MEMBERS, headed by former Chief Justice Wee Ching Jin, were appointed to the first Presidential Council for Religious Harmony by President Wee Kim Wee on Saturday. They are the Venerable Sek Yen Pei representing Buddhists, Mufti Haji Syed Isa Semait for Muslims, Archbishop Gregory
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      • 82 2 DEDUCTIONS from the salaries of Chinese Singaporeans towards the community's self-help organisation will begin from September. The Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) said about 75,000 employers had already been informed of the scheme's launch. The deductions will be SO cents for those earning less than $2,000 a
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      • 58 2 FROM Sep I, used motor vehicles which are more than three years old will not be allowed to be imported or registered for use in Singapore, the Registry of Vehicles reminded motorists on Saturday. At the same time, all self-imported cars will no longer be exempt
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      • 61 2 THE Minister of Education, Lee Yock Suan, is attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Education Ministerial Meeting which starts today in Washington DC. The theme of the four-day meeting hosted by the US government is on education standards for the 21st century. Education
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  • COMPANY NEWS 1
    • 698 3  -  They fear industry unable to boost daily turnover of around 100 m By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Stockbrokers and investment analysts are increasingly frustrated by the stagnating, even declining, turnover on the local exchange which they fear the industry can do very little about. The average
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    • 413 3  -  By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE Two more major foreign companies are seeking to list their shares on the stock exchange here, in the wake of Hongkongowned Clipsal Industries' share offer which was launched last week. The identities of the two could not be
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    • 223 3 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Boustead Holdings Bhd is acquiring a 70 per cent stake in Kemira Sissions Paints Sdn Bhd for M 517.4 million (SS 11.1 million). Permata Merchant Bank Bhd, on behalf of Boustead, said in a statement over the weekend that
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 43 3 SINGAPORE United Overseas Land has appointed Lim Associates (Pte) Ltd as its new share registrar, and in connection with the Warrants 1997, its new warrant agent, in place of UOB Management Services Pte Ltd, from Sep 1.
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      • 49 3 SINGAPORE The Development and Commercial (D&C) Bank increased its group pre-tax profit by 22.6 per cent to M 564.05 million (5540.99 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1992. This was helped by total income of M 5426.43 million, against M 5301.04 million previously.
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      • 52 3 SINGAPORE With contracts worth M 5975 million (*****.75 million) in hand, General Corporation Bhd looks forward to a better performance this current year, said chairman Low Keng Huat. Its Singapore subsidiary. Low Keng Huat Construction Company, alone has clinched contracts worth Sssoo million for several projects
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      • 33 3 SINGAPORE First Allied Corp (FACB), which has received some of the necessary approvals for its proposed restructuring scheme, has made some changes relating to its purchase of Sri Semangat.
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    • 711 4  -  Analysts see Big Four posting combined earnings of $490 m for Ist half By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Local banks, lending at a brisk pace to Malaysia and other Asean countries, are expected to post first-half earnings growth of about 10 per
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    • 411 4  -  By Sylvia Wong SINGAPORE Local retailer C K Tang expects a rescue operation in the group's trading division to pay off in three years' time. The division's turnover is then expected to double to $48 million, making up 30
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    • 401 4  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Japanese brokerages Daiwa Securities, Nikko Securities and Yamaichi Securities have joined Nomura Securities in setting up new companies to take up their international membership on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The four Japanese
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    • 523 4  -  THE HOCK LOCK SIEW COLUMN By Amy Balan SINGAPORE Shareholders must I have been disappointed to learn that I Beijaya Group's net earnings dropped s by two-thirds to a mere MSB.2 million i (555.2 million) for the year
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    • 357 5 Weak market puts paid to listing plans AP NEW YORK Revlon Inc last Thursday became the latest victim of a weak market for initial public offerings and withdrew its plan to raise US$l54 million (*****.5 million) by going public. Revlon postponed the sale
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    • 328 5 Reuter SYDNEY New Zealand conglomerate Fletcher Challenge Ltd (FCL) has made provisions for the collapse of its 48 per cent-owned Australian builder Jennings Group, chief executive Hugh Fletcher said during the weekend. Asked in a television interview how badly the troubled builder
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 95 5 NEW YORK McDonnell Douglas Corp, citing sharply higher research spending on a proposed 600-seat jumbo jet, ■said on Friday that second-quarter earnings dropped 50.6 per cent, to US$3B million (5561.2 million), or US$l a share, from US$77 million, or US$2.Ol a share, a year
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      • 77 5 HONGKONG China Overseas Land and Investment is to tap the market for HK5844.59 million (S$ 177.3 million) through a new share issue, the biggest flotation this year. The property development and investment firm is to issue 820 million new shares, with one warrant for
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      • 57 5 MOSCOW The Russian government has decided to take control of former Soviet airline Aeroflot, to be called I. Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines, Interfax news agency reported on Friday. The new airline would be a joint stock company, the majority of whose shares would remain in the Russian
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    • 427 5 Reuter TAIPEI Leading Taiwanese personal computer maker Acer Inc said it made a group profit of about US$3 million (Ss4.B million) in the first half of 1992 because of a big reduction in losses at its US operations. Acer Inc
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  • FINANCIAL NEWS
    • 375 6  -  By Quak Hiang Whai SINGAPORE Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, the world's largest bank, expects the treasury business in the Republic to continue to grow over the next few years. In an interview with BT, Seiichiro Suzuki, general manager of DKB's Singapore branch, said the
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    • 447 6 Responsibilities extend from Europe to S America SINGAPORE British insurance broker Nelson Hurst Group, which was controlled by Citibank until a management buyout last year, has set up a tax planning centre here for its global operations outside the UK. David
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    • 382 6 Reuter WASHINGTON The Resolution Trust Corp filed a US$4OO million (***** million) lawsuit against Arthur Andersen Co last Friday, charging the accounting firm with malpractice in the failure of a Houston savings loan association. The US agency, responsible for handling the assets
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    • 337 6 FT LONDON The UK's Serious Fraud Office has finally abandoned its Blue Arrow prosecution by dropping proceedings against four City advisers still charged with fraud over the affair. The SFO's widely expected decision last Friday to scrap the next two trials followed
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    • SMALL CHANGE
      • 109 6 LONDON The Bank of Ireland has announced that its Bank of Ireland First Holdings Inc unit and other group companies in New Hampshire made a pre-tax loss of U5532.4 million (5552.2 million) in the half year to June 30 after a loss of
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      • 79 6 FRANKFURT German merchant bank BHF has reported that its consolidated partial operating profit was up by 15.1 per cent for the first half of the year compared with the year-earlier period, to 149 million marks (Ssl69 million). BHF (Berliner Handels und Frankfurter Bank) added that
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      • 73 6 ZURICH Credit Suisse, Switzerland's third-largest bank, confirmed on Friday it is in talks to buy Gewerbebank Baden, a Swiss regional bank with assets of 1.66 billion Swiss francs (552.04 million) at the end of June. A Credit Suisse spokesman confirmed a statement from engineering firm
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      • 90 6 COPENHAGEN Danish insurer Hafnia Holding A/S has said that its buy option for 73 per cent of Interbank af 1985 A/S has been extended under a deal obliging Hafnia to take responsibility for the options it had not known it had. On July 1, Hafnia suspended
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  • THE REGION
    • 360 7 BANGKOK Thai businessmen still feel uncertain about prospects in Thailand, especially with labour disputes increasing, key business people told the Bangkok Post on Saturday. Toshiba Group vicepresident Khunying Niramol Surisayat, Khunying Chanut Piyaoui and Pornsit Sriorathaikul shared their views on business prospects during a
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    • 258 7 Reuter, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia recorded a trade surplus of M 5363 million ($232.3 million) in May, against a deficit of M 5593 million in April, the statistics department said. May's surplus, the first since last December, was
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    • NOTE BOOK
      • 72 7 JAKARTA Indonesia may buy more F-16 fighter jets, Air Force Chief of Staff Marshall Siboen said on Saturday. "We are considering it," he told reporters but gave no other details of possible purchases. Marshall Siboen also said that Indonesia was close to buying
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      • 46 7 YANGON Myanmar will hold an international gems sale in October to market its high-quality stones and jade, some of them from newly-discovered deposits, the state-run Working People's Daily reported on Saturday, saying the sale was aimed at raising much-needed foreign currency.
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      • 51 7 SYDNEY The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd's employment advertisements index, which measures the number of job advertisements in daily metropolitan newspapers, fell a seasonally-adjusted 2.4 per cent in July. Job ads in total are now 2.1 per cent down in the year to July
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      • 55 7 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is against a proposal by certain powers to impose sanctions on Myanmar, as it feels such action would only block the return of the democratic process there. Foreign Minister Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi said the proposed sanctions would only increase the misery and
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  • THE WORLD 1
    • WORLD WATCH
      • 76 8 MIAMI A top Bush administration official said last Saturday that the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Mexico and Canada is unlikely by the long-time target date of Nov 3. Earlier last week, President George Bush said the
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      • 58 8 ATHENS Greece's Parliament ratified the Maastricht treaty on European union by an overwhelming majority on Friday, with 286 out of 300 deputies in the European Community's poorest member state voting in favour. All 12 EC members must ratify the treaty agreed in December in the Dutch town
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      • 30 8 TAIPEI A board bearing the name of Taiwan's new Coastal Patrol Command was erected on Aug 1 after Taiwan disbanded the Garrison Command under democratic reforms.
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      • 68 8 OTTAWA Canada's economic output slumped in May after four months of growth, the government said on Friday, signalling that the anaemic recovery may be faltering. Canada's gross domestic product fell by 0.1 per cent for the month, the Statistics Canada agency said. GDP rose by 0.2 per
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      • 42 8 MOSCOW The Russian government has told commercial banks to offer cheap loans to firms in the far north of the country to allow them to buy food, consumer goods and coal and oil, Itar-Tass news agency said.
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    • 377 8 Asahi TOKYO Reflecting growing concern with the continuing decline of stock prices despite the July 27 cut in the official discount rate, the government is moving forward with the implementation of a new economic pump-priming package by the end of August. Initially expected to
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    • 297 8 Reuter KATSUTA, Japan The Japanese army, soon to make its debut in Cambodia as United Nations peace-keep-ers, is struck with stage fright and bewildered by a logistics nightmare. "Morale, especially among officers, is very high," said Hidehiro Nagahama, instructor of bridge-laying at
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    • 275 8 Reuter BEIJING China will beef up its international copyright agreements in October in a move officials hope will placate its trading partners. Liu Gao, deputy director of the China National Copyright Administration, said China last month notified sponsors of the Berne Convention on Protecting
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    • 442 8 NYT MOSCOW Eleven months after the failed Communist coup and seven months after the breakup of the Soviet Union, President Boris Yeltsin's reformist government is in retreat and its radical economic plan is faltering. There is a growing sense that the administration of Acting
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    • 627 9 Too early to say upswing is here to stay: economists Reuter WASHINGTON The "Now you see it, now you don't" US economic recovery may be about to reappear again after nearly dropping out of sight in the second quarter. But economists say it
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    • 192 9 Reuter WASHINGTON US home mortgage interest rates slipped again last week to the lowest level of the year, inching towards the 8 per cent level last seen in July 1973. The Federal Home Ixtan Mortgage Corp said last Friday that the average interest
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    • 449 9 SSISSSBB BSMFF AP DALLAS When Ross Perot dropped plans to run for president as an independent candidate, he said he did not want to be disruptive. But election analysts say he could still have a heavy impact. The maverick Texan is swiftly
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    • 294 9 Reuter ROME Only days after pushing through an emergency austerity package. Rome's embattled government won a major accord to end automatic wage indexation. The government of Prime Minister Giuliano Amato, facing an economic emergency, was in a jubilant mood on Saturday after
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    • 365 9 FIVE EASY PIECES. Investing in foreign currencies CURRENCY 3 MONTH can yield up to 5 RATE times the interest Spanish Pesetas 11.2750% return on your money compared Pound sterling 8.6650% with Singapore Dollars. Higher ECU 9.3750% rates for higher Deutsche mark 8.2250% deposit amounts are available Swiss Francs 6.9750% upon
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  • ANALYSIS
    • 818 10  -  Yoichi Funabashi wants concerted effort by Japan, the US and Germany to pilot the global economy away from a slump Yoichi Funabashi The writer is a senior writer for Asahi Shimbun Asahi News Service A PALPABLE dread reminiscent of "Black Monday" in
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    • 890 10  -  :S N Vasuki discusses securitisation, a method that sound US corporations are using to derive value from their receivables portfolio S N Vasuki Securitisation is a uniquely American solution to solve the financial mess of the country's grossly overleveraged corporations. Though it started with
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    • 725 10  -  Bill Keller looks at the federal system that is arising to replace apartheid Bill Keller NYT ON A HILLTOP in Zulu country the other day, a white civil engineer took a break from supervising preparations for the wedding of the Zulu king and volunteered
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 59 10 DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU HOWCOULPYOUHIRS HOUABOUTThitSUCCIS&QNOF WELL, YES, BUT TM ZONKOITOLOOKAF- YOU mZEHINNatSVOtfcHAPFOR. ■J. J., ON HER WORST Qfid, SHE'S SURE SHB MEANS TER MY NAMELESS SHOUU? JEFF? HOW ABOUT HEM, THE HEIPIISN7 ONE-TENTH AS TRY/N6 THOSE THINGS IN A I GMNPCHIU?* HAVE TALK, TEEN-AGE MUTANT WHO TOOK UNRELIABLE, IRRESPONSIBLE,
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  • ENTERPRISE & MANAGEMENT 1
    • 871 11  -  Helen Chang meets the brains behind a Johnny-come-lately, but increasingly successful, chain of small grocery stores SINGAPORE'S lENIREBRENEURSM Helen Chang GOO Kem Suaa believes chainstores are the way of the future. In 10 years' time, he would like to see chain-stores in Singapore
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    • 207 11 Marketing promotions: Special discounts on certain lines attract more customers. These promotional offers, which take place about eight times a year, are advertised on posters put up in the HDB estates. PMSL promises to take back unsold items. Modern look: Clean
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    • 415 11 ELDERLY shopkeeper Francis Soh used to use an abacus to calculate grocery orders for his provision store. Not that there was much to do. Business was so slow that his son would sit in the store for hours, just reading the newspapers. But
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    • 485 12  -  Karen Lowry Miller discusses the extension of karoshi compensation to Japan's legions of salaried white-collar workers Karen Lowry Miller TWO YEARS ago, Jun Ishii was at the peak of his career at Mitsui Co. As one of Mitsui's only speakers of Russian, the factory
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    • 801 13 Citibank announces a new share issue plan that could really spark your investments. Following the success of our first issue in US$ for GP The reimbursement will only be effected to you upon Batteries International, we now bring you Clipsal Industries your presentation of the US$ draft, being the proceeds
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  • OLYMPICS '92 1
    • 505 14 AFP, AP BARCELONA American favourite Gwen Torrence on Saturday accused two of the Olympic women's 100-metre medallists of taking drugs. "I'm disappointed because two people ahead of me were not clean," she said after finishing fourth. "We all know that some people don't respect the rules.
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    • OLYMPIC FEATS
      • 142 14 COLIN JACKSON of Britain led qualifiers yesterday in the first round of the 110 m hurdles in the track and field programme to give the US team another shock in an event it has traditionally dominated. Jackson clocked 13.10, coasting over the last
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      • 63 14 THE CIS, which includes most of the defending and world champions from the former Soviet Union, made short work of Japan to reach the women's Olympic volleyball final knockout tournament yesterday. The CIS won its final preliminaryround match 15-13, 15-11, 15-11 in just 70 minutes
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      • 58 14 ERIC SRECKI earned France its third gold medal of the Games when he won the men's individual epee title on Saturday. Srecki beat Pavel Kolodkov of Russia in two legs, 6-5, 5-2, in the final, to make it a second fencing gold for the French, 24
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      • 99 14 CHINA'S chances of gold in the inaugural Olympic badminton tournament have suffered two big dents after top men Wu Wenkai and Liu Jun slumped to third-round defeats. World number 19 Kim Hak-Kyun of South Korea beat joint third seed Wu 10-15 15-7 18-13. Dangerous Dane Thomas
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      • 114 14 BRAZIL beat Germany 85-76 and Croatia topped Angola 73-64 yesterday in their final preliminary round games in the Olympic men's basketball tournament. The win virtually guaranteed Brazil of third place in Group A and a spot in the quarter-finals, barring a miraculous upset defeat for the
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      • 168 14 THE KING is dead (or at least biding his time in the long jump pit). Long live the king. Linford Christie of Britain on Saturday was offered probably his last ever chance at sprinting immortality and grabbed it with both hands, winning the men's 100
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      • 49 14 ALMUDENA MUNOZ brought host Spain its second women's Olympic judo gold in as many days when she won the junior-lightweight on Saturday. In the men's junior-lightweight final, Brazil's unheralded Rogerio Sampaio outpointed Hungarian Joszef Csak with a number of throws, including a near-perfect leg sweep.
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      • 100 14 AT PRESS TIME, 9pm, last night, the CIS was still on top of the medal tally with 57 medals, of which 24 were gold. Th» m in spite of losing one medal when its light-heavy weightlifWr Ibragim Samadov was stripped of his bronze after walking out of
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    • 290 14 ARCHERY: Men's 70m 3pm: Ist and 2nd rounds 7pm: Q-finals, s-finals, final ATHLETICS: 3.30pm: Men's discus (qualifying) 3.3Spm Women's 200 m (Ist round) 4.20pm Men's 200 m (Ist round) 5.15pm Men's 1,500 m (Ist round) 6.15pm Men's 400 m hurdles (Ist round) 12.00 am Tues Men's 110
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    • 896 15 NYT BARCELONA Halfway through these Olympic Games, there are more hairy issues and bald heads than multi-medal heroes. Matters are unlikely to change this week in Barcelona, where drugs, commercialism and poor sportsmanship have found a comfortable roost on the medal stand. Too often, the
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    • 289 15 AP BARCELONA Shoulder-to-shoulder, they duelled all the way up Montjuic Hill, the winding, gruelling finish to the women's marathon. Valentina Yegorova, a Russian, would pull a few feet ahead and Japan's Yuko Arimori would stay right with her. Finally, just outside the gates of
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    • 629 15 At last perfect scores in women's gymnastics UPI, AP BARCELONA The judges finally threw open the door to perfection in women's gymnastics on Saturday night, and two competitors sprang right through. Lavinia Milosovici of Romania and China's Lu Li, both IS years old, posted scores of 10.000 to win gold
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  • THE ARTS
    • 935 17  -  For critics, opera is serious, high-minded stuff. But for fans, opera is more -like a carnival. David Scniff on why he prefers the fans' approach David Scniff NYT I F THEY asked me, I could write a book called Opera as Nonsense, a retort to Joseph
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    • 462 17  -  Benjamin Loh finds listening to the Asian Youth Orchestra a most refreshing experience Benjamin Loh bravo! THE Asian Youth Orchestra's exuberant performance last Friday evening at the Singapore Conference Hall was a testimony that music-making can and should be fun. It is sad that we often
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE 1
    • 4517 18  -  By S N Vasuki FOREIGN institutions returned to the local bourse with a vengeance last week, pushing the benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index up by 50 points. However, foreign interests focused on selective counters and overall trading volumes were at modest levels. The trigger for
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  • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
    • 5517 21 Bernama SHARE PRICES in Kuala Lumpur closcd higher last week, aided by an upswing in buying activity towards the close of the week. The Composite Index jumped 8.00 points to 601.53 and the allshare Emas Index rose 0.87 of a point to 146.11.
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  • BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
    • 316 22 Comply Date Ymt Gnxip N«t N«t Meltings Grots te profit/toss (L) par share dhridand C000) (cMts) CK Tang Jul 23 Mar 92 $3,802(16,552) 92(168) 6(6) Causeway Jul 22 Dec 91 ***** (Jl,808) -(5.8) J Cement Jul 22 Mar 92 $10,044($3.126) 28 5(89) 125(7.5) Asia Pac Id Jul 20
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    • 201 22 Company Date Yoar Croup pre-tax N«t earnings Grots mi to profit/loss (L) por start dividend COM) (cents) St Tyres Jul 30 Apr 92 $3,111(53,048) 4.6(5.3) 5(-) Rasind Hussam Jul 24 May 92 M$68.279($68,223) 24 4(33) 5(5) YTL Corpn Jul 24 Jun 92 M$42,505($30,951) 173(136) 10(10) Sn Hartamas Jul
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    • 268 22 Company Date Half-year Group pro-tax Interim ami to profit/loss (L) dividend (000) Jurong Ship Jul 31 Jun 92 $46.817($43.718) 15(15) U06 Jul 31 iun 92 S162.609c(S145.382c) 8(8) UOF Jul 31 Jun 92 $6,652($5,532) BAT Jul 30 Jun 92 $22.862($22,102) 61.9(61 9) ICB Jul 30 Jun 92 $16,531c($18,626c) 4(4)
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    • 72 22 CM Last Ml Ye* Forecast Bate Ret MM EPS amet T«r EPS Cran prtH tag* tap Cmm P«W M jr (eh) (SHI) (MSa) MM F Apr 30 Dec 91 1.5 8,946 14.0—27.6 2.4—2.6 Sd tntg F Jul 18 Mar 92 2.6 30 4,921 2.1-5.3 1.1—2.7 Forecast figures are
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    • 1047 22 Trans Register**! Substantial Buy/ No. of Aawwrt SharafcaMtog Stock Date Hoktor SJiaraMdar/Mractor Son sham Baton Mar DBS 28/07/92 DBS Nominees (Pte) ltd Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd S 6,000 68,693 108,995.089 2088 108.989.089 2088 Jurong Stop 28/07/92 Street Names Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd S 2,000 15.044 16,352,749 14
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    • 545 22 Mm Baari Last Fal Tear (Mm Parted tat* Tmt EPS Crass M mmd sadtag (ctt) prsft U|» (SJ'IH) EMS Final Nov 6 Jul 91 30TE 17.8/81 Ktffd fiuace Intern) Jul 30 Dec 92 66 50 6.076 Steaaan Intenm Jut 30 Dec 92 6.1 8 0 8.227 Siagaariaa
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    • 566 22 CwTMt Ex Mu Date Tatal far Total far Nywwt data cfaM payaMa Um yar last yaar Utx ttdgs 50c 6%<b) Aug 26 Sep 7 Sep 24 6% 6% Amcal 25c 10% Aug 21 Aug 27 Sep 10 10% 10% Asia Pac Id 50c 2%(b) Jul 23 Ai« 6
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    • 644 22 M 30 DBS Bank has bought 24,000 Tat Lee Bank shares for $74,770, raising its stake in Tat Lee Bank to 13.43 per cent. IXriop Estates Bhd has agreed to sell its entire stake in Malaysia Vegetable Oil Refinery Sdn Bhd to Eng Lam Co for Mslo million.
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    • 427 22 Company Rights Issue En Tin Saw Three-tor-one a $105 per stare Ei-date Jun 17 Books dose Jun 27 Acceptance Payment: Aug 3 MM Three-tor four at M$1 00 per share Ei-date Jun 9 Books dose Jun 24 Acceptance Payment Aug 7 S Franc* One-tor $1.10 per share Ei-date
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    • 513 22 Company Rights Issue Tech One-far-one <g, $100 per share Stad One-tor-three MS2 20 per share Issue ol *****m 50% Cumulative Redeemable Preference shares of 10 sen each 1992/97 (CRPS) with up to *****m Transferable Subscription Rights (TSR) for an aggregate price of Ml per CRPS with one TSR,
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    • 195 22 Bukit Sembawang Estates Ltd: 26th AGM EGM at the Summit Room, Valey Wing, Lobby Level, Valley Wing, Shangri-La Hotel Ltd, 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore 1025, on Friday, August 7, at noon Overseas Union Trust Ltd: EGM at the Board Room, 45th Storey, OU6 Centre, 1 Raffles Place,
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    • 79 22 Conversion Special Trdg Scripleas Conversion deadline Period Trading Compan> ««m (IDP) (ST) start, ANA^Hotels J"! a"® U Jul 31 Au 13 Aug •< ?l Aug 27 Aug 17 Aug 27 a2 28 Lin Kah \nm "i"! Au8 13 Jul 31 Aug '3 Aug 14 LonKahNg"", 3 Aug 27
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    • 146 22 RECORD HIGHS LOWS BT Composite Index ST Industrials Index 1992 Me 1316 68 (21/2/92) 1992 1545.92 (27/1/92) 1992 b? *****1 (9/4/92) 1352.83 (9/4/92) 1991 1333 08 (3/6/91) 1591 1565.58 (3/6/91) 1991 IT 1022.52 (16/1/91) 1991 Imt 1149.08 (16/1/91) 1990 Ngtr 1435.43 (16/7/90) 1990 Nfh: 1607.12 (27/3/90) 1990 tow: 981 07
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    • 350 22 In local cuiT In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jnly 31 Index chge chge chgc chge chge chge World 376.3 0.5 -7.8 0.5 -8.0 0.6 -7.6 fEAFE 430.8 0.8 -14.2 1.1 -13.8 1.2 -13.4 Europe 401.2 -0.4 -2.4 -0.1 0.1 0.0
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  • MARKET REVIEWS
    • 743 23 Sharp drop in consumer confidence sparks frenzied buying FT WHO WOULD have thought it? Just as Wall Street was settling down for its annual summer slumber, and the Red Braces Brigade were dreamily contemplating a month of quiet weekdays and long lazy weekends
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    • 815 23  -  LONDON 1 xia By Ray Heath THE LIGHT at the end of Britain's economic tunnel flickered out last week. The switch was pulled by the Confederation of British Industries' (CBI) latest survey of business opinion. This showed that all the optimism that flared
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    • 564 23  -  Sun Hung Kai AS EXPECTED, the market was depressed by followthrough selling last Monday, with the Hang Seng Index shedding 108 points to close at a two-and-a-half-month low of 5,664. It then staged a strong rebound on the back of improvements in overseas markets, easing
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    • ASIAN MARKETS ROUNDUP
      • 165 23 THE AUSTRALIAN share market ended slightly up on the previous week after trade figures indicated an upturn in the economy, brokers said on Friday. But the balance of payments, which showed a surge in imports, made no lasting impression, they said. "The market only seems to go up reluctantly
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      • 83 23 THE STOCK Exchange of Thailand Index closed on Friday at 744.42 points, down 1.74 from the previous week's close. The average daily volume during the week was 85.1 millip n shares traded, compared with a daily average 114.5 Trillion shares the previous vfeek. The average value of all shares
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      • 260 23 MOST SHARE prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange remained stagnant, but weak trading pressured the market's index further down for the third consecutive week. The JSE Index continued its downward trend to close the week at 317.186 compared to the 319.685 the previous week. Transactions remained sparse throughout the
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      • 224 23 SHARE PRICES on the Taiwan Stock Exchange staged a heartening comeback after being dragged to an 18-month low during the week. Easing a massive 6.1 per cent dive the preceding week, the 295-issue Weighted Price Index bounced 86.36 points 2.1 per cent —to close at 4,108.52 on Friday. After
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      • 252 23 INDIAN STOCK prices fell over the week, partly because of the resignation of a top federal investigator probing a massive bank scandal. Prices fluctuated during the five-day trading week, with the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitivity Index slipping from 2,804.15 to 2,727.06 points, and the National Index from 1,266.40 to
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    • 321 23 \R;' t, %J> TOKYO AFP SHARE PRICES posted a sizable gain on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after a rally late in the week. The benchmark Nikkei Stock Average closed on Friday at 15,910.28 yen, up 412.49 yen or 2.66 per cent from a week before.
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  • WORLD STOCK MARKETS
    • US stocks extend rally to fourth day
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        1372 24 NEW YORK stocks closed with slim gains in quiet trading on Friday, extending a rally to its fourth day as further evidence of economic recovery helped nudge the market from an initial stall. The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 1.89 points to 3,393.78. The broad gauges rewrote
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        790 24 SHARES ENDED the day lower after a dull session on Friday in London, through nervous prospects for the banking sector combined with gloom in the building industry to repel investors. The Footsie Index ended 12 points lower at 2,399,6. The FT-30 Index lost 4.1 to 1,803.8. Volume was down
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      • 202 24 THE FRANKFURT stock market ended the week with a losing session on Friday, as the DAX Spot Trend Index closed at 1,615.42 points, down by 8.57. The Commerzbank indicator shed 28 points to finish at 1,798.50. Operators said the market was suffering from the weakness of Allianz insurance stock,
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      • 248 24 DUTCH SHARES closed down on Friday as fears of a correction to Wall Street's recent buoyancy sent a nervous, thin market back to near opening lows, dealers said. The EOE Index ended 1.15 points down at 288.8. Scant attention in an end-week, endmonth session focused on heavy selling of
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      • 254 24 FRENCH SHARE prices on Friday followed bond prices downward as buyers sat on their hands and the bourse settled into what some dealers said could be a long period of unsettling doubt. The CAC-40 Index ended down 27.90 points to 1,754.67, retracing all the gains that had been clocked
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      • 336 24 SWISS SHARES closed easier but off earlier lows on Friday, dealers said. "The slide in German share markets outweighed the overnight gains on the bourses of New York and Tokyo," one broker said. Retail business was slow and institutional investors have not yet returned to the market as the
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      • 200 24 SWEDISH SHARES traded higher on Friday, led by continued strong performance in the Astra shares, but volume was low due to the absence of market moving news. The All-Share Index was up 0.6 per cent at 847.86. The Top-16 Index rose 0.53 per cent. Turnover was low at 134
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      • 264 24 THE BELGIAN Bel-20 index closed at its day's high on Friday, propelled by gains in industrials, notably Solvay and Petrofina. Trading overall was thin, however, with 645 million francs worth of shares exchanged. The Bel-20 closed up 4.08 points at 1,145.26. Dealers said the market went against the generally
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      • 393 24 STRONG GAINS in bank shares pushed Toronto stocks moderately higher on Friday, dealers said. Some traders said the gains in banks were due to Bramalea's reorganisation plan while others said it was due to expectations of lower interest rates. "That was the feature. That was kind of the whole
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      • 459 24 July 31 Close Previous NEW YORK Dow Jones 3.393.78 3.391.89 +1.89 S&P500 424.21 423.92 +0.29 Turnover (million) 180.58 193.41 -12.83 LONDON Financial Times 30 1.803.8 1,807.9 -4.1 KTSE 100 2,399.6 2.411.6 -12.0 Turnover (million) 378.1 430.5 -52.4 FRANKFURT DAX Index 1.615.42 1.623.99 -8.57 AMSTERDAM EOF. Index 288.80 289.95 -1.15 PARIS
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  • CURRENCY, MONEY & FUTURES MARKETS
    • 450 25 NEW YORK Reuter THE US DOLLAR last Friday shrugged off some upbeat economic data and ended a choppy session on a weak note. Dealers said the reluctance to hold dollars due to its unfavourable yields kept the downward pressure in spite of the threat of
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    • 776 25 ASIAN CURRENCIES AFP HONGKONG Asia-Pacific currencies closed generally weaker against the the US dollar last week, but declines were slight. The yen, Australian, Taiwan and New Zealand dollars, Malaysian ringgit, Indonesian rupiah and Thai baht were weaker. The South Korean won stabilised its downward trend
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    • 383 25 Cross rates Ju i y 3 USS SS MS Dm Yen SFr AS NZS USS 1.6130 2.5020 1.4760 127.70 0.5189 1.3120 1.3423 1.8349 SS 0.6200 1.5511 0.9151 79.1692 0.3217 0.8134 0.8322 1.1375 MS 0.3997 0.64 0.5899 51.0392 0.2074 0.5244 0.5365 0.7334 Dm 0.6775 1.0928 1.6951 86.52 0.3516
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    • 527 25 Interbank rates S$ Bid Offer Overnight 2 5/8 2 3/4 1-month 2 5/16 2 7/16 2-month 2 5/16 2 7/16 3-month 2 3/8 2 1/2 Overnight mode: 2-7/16 IS$ High Low 7 days 3 5/16 3 5/16 1 month 3 5/16 3 5/16 2 months 3 3/8 3
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    • 329 25 Knight Ridder LONDON The UK would not devalue the sterling in any realignment of the EC's exchange rate mechanism (ERM), senior government sources continue to maintain. A government source indicated late on Thursday that in the case of a realignment,
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    • 257 25 Reuter PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand and four leaders of the West African CFA franc zone have ruled out a devaluation of the currency that links France with its former African colonies. Quashing rumours of a devaluation that swirled last week, triggering heavy
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    • 296 25 Reuter LISBON Over-the-counter trading still accounts for a major chunk of Portuguese share and bond trading, but dealers say it is losing popularity because of high charges and a lack of transparency. Over-the-counter operations, where a buyer places his order through a
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    • 332 25 Numbar Indleativ* OroM Maturity Ymt C °H m Amount ofdtyarf mMdtaprioM riamwiluii ratMd rBl (Sral P«ym«n» aecruad («xcmdlng ytm ri a (%p«) w <Mm interact accrtttft IntMMf) is. ftp*| I —j— I- —Wli 11 1.9.92 N*****1T1987 5# 300.00 1/3 1/9
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    • 385 25 BANKS Internationa] Bank (S) 6V4 ABN Amro Bank NV 6* Nederlanden ANZ Banking Group 6% Allied Irish Bank PLC 7 V: Bancarto 6V ZZZTi* iS PI r KCPPC'Bajk (SI 5* RFrF Korea Exchange 7 Ban Hin ZZZZ: 6V. fwangtung Provincial 6 Banca Commercale 7 yo a J
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    • 148 25 COMEX July 31 GOLD FUTURES(100 oz) USS/oz Open High Low Settle Change Aug 92 357.00 357.80 357.00 357.40 +0.90 Sep 358.30 +0.80 Oct 359.00 359.90 359.00 359.40 +0.80 Dec 361.20 362.00 360.90 361.40 +0.80 Feb 93 363.20 363.80 363.20 363.30 +0.80 Apr 364.70 365.20 364.70 365.10 +0.80 J
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  • COMMODITIES
    • 376 26 Knight-Ridder TOKYO The surge in coffee sales to Japan by Thailand, Vietnam and India looks set to slow, but Indonesia still faces a tough fight to regain market share here, say Japanese trade sources. The three countries have been very aggressive
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    • 290 26 Reuter ONVERDACHT Surinam's bauxite-alumina operations will only be economically viable if the government sharply devalues the local currency, the Surinam guilder, says the managing director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group-owned producer. The local cost component in the Surinamese industry was the
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    • 793 26 REPORTS AFP LONDON The absence of frost in Brazilian coffee-pro-ducing regions and sentiment that nothing would be achieved at last week's second round of talks on a new international agreement to reduce world oversupply brought coffee prices down last week. International Coffee
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  • 1429 26 Rubber MS CimmMHty Eictanga (Intro dodt a* at lpw) WSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 92 0.00 0.00 143.50 0 925 Sep 0.00 0.00 143.00 0 3,825 Oct 0.00 0.00 142.25 0 3,725 Nov 0.00 0.00 142.25 0 3,875 Dec
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    • 1150 26 NOTICES LOST SHARE CERTIFICATES Th« following Share Certificates have been reported lost or destroyed:HONG FOK CORPORATION LIMITED Certificate No. In the name of No. of Shares *****14 Lee Lee Choo 1 x 200 *****80 Rustam Effendi 1 x 1000 *****91 Lua Kim Keat 1 x 1000 NEPTUNE ORIENT LINES LIMITED
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  • 1173 27 Crty ET* Flight JETO City Flight ETA Flight ETC **«*»**> SQ228 2050 SQ227 2230 K*ta Ktnabalu MH631 1520 MH630 0950 torn— RJI82 1440 RJI83 2340 Kuala Lumpur MH629 0040 MH602 0700 Amstwrfsm SQ23 0645 KL838 2240 MH640 0805 SQ102 0730 KL831 0940 MH630 0855 MH604 0740
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  • THE TRAVEL PAGE
    • 835 27 LETTER FROM TOKYO WHEN Toshinari Koinuma travelled to the Newport Jazz Festival 25 years ago as manager of the Japanese big band The Sharps And Flats, he discovered that Japanese concepts of jazz were still in the dark ages. Lying flat on his back under
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    • 151 27 As at 10am 31.7.92: Local dollars to one unit of foreign currency Currencies Bid Offer Australian dollar 1.1960 1.2122 Canadian dollar 1.3497 1.3769 NZ dollar 0.8700 0.8876 Sterling pound 3.0952 3.1372 US dollar 1.6090 1.6160 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign cwrency Austrian schilling 1S.3S
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    • 63 27 Duration Title Venue Oiganaer T« Duration Title Venue Organiser Td Sep 6-9 Fine Food Melbourne Australian (61)3/867.7981 Sep 6-9 International Dusseldorf. IGEDO. (49)211-*****1 Exhibition Fashion Trade Germany Internationale Servers Fair Modemcsse Sep 6-10 International Earls Court, Reed Exhibition 081-*****71 Watch, Jewellery London Companies Ltd Sep 6-10 Trade
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 359 27 I 6 Grin to display an--8 Arrive just in time to sue- manufacturer 9 Nothing is wrong if every- j j I j 1 BB 1 1 I I 1 one is dressed like a dandy ~~iBrnBB"~HH~ ~~Hi 10 Return of prohibition j j leads to arrest (3) Florid two
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    • 160 27 Singapore Outlook: Showers over several areas in the morning and enrty afternoon Report Maximum temperature 31.3 Assoc humidity 70% Minimum temperature 23.9 Assoc humidity 99% Hours of sunshine 8.10 Rainfall in mm 3.0 Rainfall this month 0.1 Rainy days this month 0 World report Asia-Pacific Hi/Lo* Cond. Bangkok 32/25 Cloudy
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  • 394 28 Plans also underway to open bank offices overseas UPI BEIJING China, moving to expand its trading base, is stepping up labour and engineering services offered abroad and is working to set up bank offices in countries including Russia, South Korea and Vietnam, an
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  • 190 28 Reuter BAGHDAD Iraq, more confident than ever since its Gulf War defeat, yesterday basked in the second anniversary of its invasion of Kuwait by thundering its claims to the emirate and warning of a second takeover. "It will happen again, God willing," said
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  • 494 28 Chamlong endorses Anand's decision AFP, Reuter BANGKOK In reshuffling his country's top military leadership, Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun has reduced military interference in politics and the economy and should please foreign investors worried about political instability. "It's the most drastic decapitation of
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  • 318 28 AFP TAIPEI Taiwan is to relax restrictions on importing labour and foreign white-collar employment in a bid to boost sluggish foreign investment here, labour and investment officials said yesterday. From this month, the authorities would allow up to 40,000 foreign workers and
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  • 708 28  -  The Bottom Line SALIL TRIPATHI SALIL TRIPATHI The writer is a BT journalist TO ERR is human, to go "er, er" is unforgivable. US President George Bush did just that when queried on the wisdom of retaining his personal choice, Dan Quayle, on the
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  • 164 28 Reuter TOKYO Tokyo will invoke the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) if a US "protectionist" Bill that raises the tariff on minivans becomes law, newspapers reported yesterday. The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a Bill that would reclassify
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    • 550 29  -  By Juliette Walker SINGAPORE The coastal states of South-east Asia must step up anti-piracy measures in a two-pronged strategy at sea and on land, shipowners agree. Shipowners and their representative bodies have adopted a positive, "wait-and-see" attitude to an agreement between Singapore
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    • 248 29 Reuter BRUSSELS The European Community's Executive Commission last Friday blocked two German state aid projects on the grounds that they were market distorting. The Commission said it had decided a German plan to offer 25.35 per cent aid to the Chinese shipping firm Cosco
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    • 437 29  -  By Diana Oon SINGAPORE Major international freight forwarder and consolidator. Buyers and Shippers Enterprises Inc, has beefed up its Asian-European network of services recently. The US-based company has entered into several partnerships with major European transporters and distributors, Paul Gunther Cargo GmbH in Germany, Austria,
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    • 208 29 Reuter LONDON Sugar freight deals with Cuba over the past two months have been disrupted by port delays and non-availability of cargoes, London shipbrokers say. Four or five ships had been fixed and subsequently cancelled because cargoes were not ready, one broker said last Friday.
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    • 480 29 AP BEILNGRIES, Germany The North Sea and the Black Sea, separated by the European continent, were linked on Friday when the last section of a new canal filled with water. It was a historic moment for international shipping. A brass band played,
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    • 203 29 Bernama PORT KLANG The Sin-gapore-owned tanker Choon Hong 111, which caught fire and sank at the mouth of the KJang River in June, was refloated last Saturday. Floating crane Smit Cyclone started lifting the 76.6metre and 1,000-tonne ship at 1.30pm and by 4pm the whole ship resurfaced.
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      • 120 30 IPOH Chartered train service for transporting containers from the Ipoh Cargo Terminal (ICT) to Port Klang has been available since July 21, ICT General Manager V Sachithanathan 'said. The express service would greatly reduce the time takeiT as the train would not stop in
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      • 105 30 t GENJEVA Airline passenger traffic worldwide in June was up 10 per cent over the same month last year, the International Air Transport Association said, but characterised the growth as unsatisfactory. Airline traffic grew 21 per cent for the first six months of 1992 compared with
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      • 103 30 OTTAWA Canada has now started to pay the freight charges on grains shipped to Russia, reversing its long-stand-ing policy of not paying shipping fees, a Canadian Wheat Board official said. "For the last six to eight weeks we have been them," said Bob Roehle of
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      • 41 30 HOUSTON Astronauts Jeffrey Hoffman and Andrew Allen aboard the space shuttle Atlantis yesterday prepared to launch a US$426 million (Ss6B6 million) European satellite after; ground controllers solved a series of complicated communication problems which delayed the launch.
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      • 84 30 MOSCOW The Russian government has decided to take contfol of the former Soviet national airline Aeroflot and sell a minority holding in the company to private investors, the Interfax news agency reported. The government will maintain its itiajority share of the new company, renamed
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      • 74 30 RIO! DE JANEIRO Vessel damage delayed shipment of 13,000 tonnes of sugar from the northeastern Brazilian port of rfecife, the shipping agent said. The Agios Gerassimos sailed from Recife on July 18 destined for Lagos but was forced to return to Brazil because of problems with
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    • 2285 30 Orderbooks may be full right up to 1994 at the seven major Japanese shipyards but their bottomlines tell a different story Lloyd's List International Mention Japan's big seven shipbuilders and you conjure up an image of huge industrial conglomerates with overwhelming financial strength. The likes of
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    • 1173 30 Page Col ABC Containerline 12 I Actford Group 8 1-3 •Ahjenkiel Liner 16 4 Allied-Link 16 4/5 Alplia Feeders 6 1 •ANL 3 1/2 •APL 5 3-5 Anpw Int 9 2 Asian Break-Bulk 16 3 •ASCL 5 5 •ASXCLShpg 15 2 AuStorient Shpg
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    • 768 30 THIS twice weekly report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • 11889 38 This is a list of ships loading at Singapore for ports around the world. It tabulates, by destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure fitom the Port of Singapore. LEGEND PN: ship calls at Pcnang after
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      • 433 45 *5* Brt. Antral P«wto. VnMi VoyN, B«1h An»* Marina Terminal 1 Batam Maju *****2 M05 alongside 0108/2300 J* 1 1 lin ,,o™ Batam Murni *****2 M04 alongside 3107/2300 ft* 0 *2£ S'SJ«2 Batam Sayang *****2 M04 alongside 3107/2300 Maru nj/iivX Batannndo 1 1225S M01 3107/1500 J2ic w
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      • 276 45 I<lU n n O JOWOT6 rOn Berth: 1: Nogogini; 2: Kota Ratna; 3: Pan Queen; 4: Protogoras; 5: Barge Malvest i; 6: Barge Kuala Siak. 01 jetty: Global Eos, Pulau Gebe, Global Mercury. DCJ: Haigas, Ocean Elite. Dm on July 31: Ocean Princess, Palma, Yick Sing, Barge
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      • 1790 45 DELIVERY OF FCL IMPORT CONTAINERS IN PROGRESS Shp Voy No Contanen ivaiatte Sip Voy Wo Cwtanm witote Un Shine AN-043 30 07 92 0735 Oracle 05/042 COO(EST) 31.07 92 1500 Per rant Sori 021E 30 07.92 0820 186S COO(EST) 31 07.92 2130 Lawanti 971 30 07.92 0900 Bauhwia
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    • 1150 46 Sept 6-18: Seatrade Academy's Anatomy of Shipping, organised by Seatrade. The event will take place at Sclwyn College Cambridge. England. Sept 15-16: Asia-Pacific Digital Cellular Mobile Communications, organised by IBC Technical Services Limited at The Mandarin Singapore. For further details please contact IBC Technical Services at tel: 732-1970
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    • 596 46 A DOWNWARD adjustment in the Atlantic freight sector on Thursday, which had recently regained some strength, pulled down the Baltic Freight Index by five points to 1.088. Dry cargo brokers reported little fresh grain news in the Pacific. but some trips to the former USSR. Dreyfus took 50.000
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    • 333 48  -  Sprint Net offers one-stop shopping for data By Rahita Elias SINGAPORE Multinational companies located in Singapore will soon enjoy even better communications links with their offices in other parts of the world with the launch of Sprint Net last Thursday. Sprint Net offers users
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    • 465 48 Plane crash in China under investigation AP BEIJING Survivors of a flight that crashed during takeoff, killing 109 people, said on Saturday that they had no idea anything was wrong before the Sovietmade jet burst into flames. The cause of the crash was under
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    • 280 48 AFP TEHERAN Iran has returned to Kuwait two more planes out of the six civilian Airbus aircraft that Iraq had stolen and flown to Iran during the Gulf crisis, Iran Air's director said last Saturday. The three other Kuwaiti airliners still in Iran are
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    • 705 48 NYT NEW YORK After a day of inquiry that raised as many questions as it answered, federal investigators began a detailed examination of a charred Trans World Airlines jetliner at Kennedy International Airport last Saturday, seeking the causes of
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    • 201 48 AFP COLOMBO South Asian airlines are considering setting up their own regional grouping to find joint solutions to common problems and to share the benefits of booming traffic in the region, officials here said last Saturday. A spokesman for Sri Lanka's national carrier,
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    • 465 48 Reuter BANGKOK The crash over Nepal of a Thai Airways International (THAI) plane piles tragedy onto the woes of an airline which had become an international favourite with its "Smooth as Silk" image. In recent months, the airline has been drawn into
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